PLD 2.1 again

Marcin Król hawk w limanowa.net
Pią, 25 Maj 2007, 17:43:26 CEST


Hello.

I've finally decided that I'll give PLD 2.1 a try. Both gcc and glibc
compile and work (at least on x86). Since it will be more like Th than
Ac I also decided that it deservers new codename. Next in order is
reserverd for PLD 4.x so I've chosen completly different one: Ti. It IMO
prefectly matches here: not Ac, similiar to Th :)

Now some details:

- gcc 4.1.2 (from gcc4.spec on AC-branch)
- glibc from HEAD
- rpm from HEAD
- more stuff from Th like xorg, gnome 2.18 etc.
- i386 will be removed (not supported by glibc)
- alpha and sparc probably will be removed too (see below)
- amd64 will be renamed to x8664

Thats what I know for now.

A word about killing alpha and sparc. I'd like to see PLD 2.1 Ti as
transitional version between Ac and Th. So I want it to be as close to
Th as possible while keeping possibility of "clean upgrade" from Ac. By
"clean upgrade" here I mean that "poldek --upgrade-dist" will work
without errors after changing sources and that all services will keep
working too. Besides, if there will be no PLD 2.1 one will eventualy
have to upgrade to Th, so he will face same problem with missing/renamed
architectures. PLD 2.1 Ti will give such person at least greater chances
that everything in his/her system will keep working after upgrade.

Comments? Suggestions? Anything else (except "for what the hell we need
PLD 2.1")?

M.

P.S. ppc builder is required :)


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